In today’s time, filmmaking is considered to be one of the most creative profession. The Indian cinema witnessed its golden period in the early ’80s when actors and directors were given the stature of the all mighty.

Last Thursday evening I visited the Goan cemetery in Pune where my younger brother Robert Gonsalves was buried five years ago. I decorated his grave with flowers and lit candles. The occasion was All Souls Day celebrated by Christendom the world over.

Unlike many of his former teammates, veteran seamer Ashish Nehra, 38, bid adieu to the game on his own terms, after the first T20 against New Zealand played at his home turf — Delhi’s Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium — on Wednesday.

A Chinese modelling agency is under fire after a 14-year-old Russian model Vlada Dzyuba died in hospital on Friday, sparking accusations that she had been overworked and underpaid during her two-month working stint in the country that included Shanghai Fashion Week.

In a laudable move, the Yogi Adityanath government has decided to introduce NCERT books in madrassas in Uttar Pradesh, apart from making mathematics and science compulsory at intermediate level in the Islamic schools.

The happening night-life in Southeast Asia’s tourism hub Thailand is expected to go sober this week as the country prepares to give its late King Bhumibol Adulyadej a lavish send-off in a spectacular five-day funeral.

With the Election Commission’s announcement of poll schedule for Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat assembly elections, poll fever is likely to grip the nation, as winning the states would be a do-or-die battle for the Congress as well as the BJP.

Dashing England all-rounder Ben Stokes is again in the news, but this time for wrong reasons. The 26-year-old cricketer was on Monday arrested in Bristol on suspicion of causing bodily harm and dropped for Wednesday’s fourth ODI against the West Indies.

The sudden rescue of Father Tom Uzhunnalil, the Catholic priest, from the clutches of the dreaded terrorists in Yemen on September 12 is nothing short of a miracle, reports emanating from the Vatican City indicate.

One of the major contributors in the BJP’s emphatic victory in 2014 general election was the clever exploitation of the social media. The BJP was clearly ahead of its opponents in building public opinion in favour of its poll mascot Narendra Modi.

Nirmala Sitharaman has taken over as the first woman full-fledged defence minister. Her appointment has raised hope that there will be some stability in the ministry. In three years of Modi government the crucial ministry has seen three defence ministers.